When you can't find jobs that aren't tied to government and unions because it cost too much money to companies to hire, its a serious problem.

The only reason that umployment is listed at 8% is because so many people out of work just gave up and stopped looking. Their benefits ran out, and
are no longer tracked and tied to the "unemployment rate"

The next generation coming in (ages 18-27) the number of people currently NOT working (note: not "unemployed" in the sense of receiving
unemployment) is nearly 40%. College students can't even get summer jobs at your supermarkets, delis, retail stores, etc. because those out of work,
severely overqualified to work as a store clerk or stockboy, cashier, whatever, are taking those $8/hour jobs to squeak by.

Well is official Obama today is again pushing the Energy reformbut he is actually concentrating on the very unpopular consumer tax gouging
cap and trade, so once again is not about pushing jobs and helping the environment but helping the pockets of those that will benefit with the
cap and trade new taxes.

I like to call the cap and trade, crap and scape.

We all know what good free trade has done to the nation and the unemployment so far.

How much Cap and trade will cost American tax payer, beside pushing more companies to leave US and with that comes yet, more unemployment.

For the strap tax payer that is facing lower incomes, unemployment and destitution this cap and trade is nothing but another drop on the bucket, along
with the incoming mandatory health care reform.

Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year, and that is just a "government number" that we know how misleading the tend to
be

The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent
of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.

A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion
a year. At the upper end of the administration's estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.

This bill is about taxing Americans to death.

One reason the bill faces an uncertain future is concern about its cost. House Republican Leader John Boehner has estimated the additional tax bill
would be at $366 billion a year, or $3,100 a year per family. Democrats have pointed to estimates from MIT's John Reilly, who put the cost at $800 a
year per family, and noted that tax credits to low income households could offset part of the bite. The Heritage Foundation says that, by 2035, "the
typical family of four will see its direct energy costs rise by over $1,500 per year."

How much increases in taxes to expect?

Because personal income tax revenues bring in around $1.37 trillion a year, a $200 billion additional tax would be the equivalent of a 15 percent
increase a year. A $100 billion additional tax would represent a 7 or 8 percent increase a year.

I think you really hit the head on the nail there
Alberta Canada ( the tar sands) would be the place to move to
beverly
hills that is
swimming pools
movie stars....
think I just might do that before the prices
go all coo coo there

That is my answer to you, you know why? because in America the burden of the debt will always fall in the dying middle
class, with the next coming HCR you and I regular people are to pay for everybody else because those that have millions and billions keep
their money outside the US.

Because the dead zone is an annual occurrence, there’s no media feeding frenzy over it, even though the average annual size of these hypoxic
zones has been about 6,600 square miles over the last five years, and they are driven by bipartisan federal agriculture, trade, and energy
policies.

Indeed, as Steven Hayward notes in the current Weekly Standard, if policymakers continue to pursue biofuels in response to the current
anti-fossil-fuel craze, these dead zones will get a lot bigger every year. A 2008 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that adhering to
corn-based ethanol targets will increase the size of the dead zone by as much as 34 percent.

BP, joined by Enron, invented carbon cap-and-trade in the mid-1990s. Yeah. That cap-and-trade.

I know, because I was in the room.

And BP has been lobbying for it aggressively and at great expense ever since, some eight figures of which has gone to green pressure groups.

Specifically, in May 1997 I met with senior officials from BP, Niagara Mohawk Power, and others… “others” like the Union of Concerned Scientists
and their ilk… in the Washington offices of a white-shoe New York law firm, putting our collective heads together strategizing on how to get the
U.S. roped into a global warming treaty, and get “cap-and-trade” imposed domestically, too.

You can read some great internal Enron memos about this effort they led in partnership with BP at the Master Resource website, run by Enron refugee
and frustrated internal whistleblower Rob Bradley. One particularly illuminating montage, including with links, is found here.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going
to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees —
$2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.

Yes it does, but in our nation is all lies, to hide the agendas behind the so call energy reform, it only means more taxes for you your family and
your unborn children that will have to deal with the debt that is passed over by all administrations in government.

Read the post I did on how much is going to cost for you and me to enrich the pockets or those behind the scam of cap and trade.

Probably a good time for POTUS to invoke some new regs on the Oilmen. Never hurts for a Politician to follow public opinion....most of the public
would like to see BP Execs hanging from trees.....Potus has yet to go that far yet..much to my chagrin!

We were reminded again of how our nation needs a transition to clean energy

OMG no. You mean America might actually start trying to wean herself off the oil additiction which is crippling her?

In the short term it WILL be expensive and some of that expense should come out of our pockets, for the common good not just of America, but the whole
planet.

Go ask spain how well that worked out for them.

Go ask Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark how green energy has worked for them. Spain is not the only country that has embraced green energy.
The failures of one country does not mean all countries have failed.

The president should be using this to push for green energy. The sooner we get stop using fossil fuels for everything, the sooner we can break the
chains to the middle east.

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